1. He averted his aim from the hard breastplate,
launching arrows that outstripped all gazes.

2. They say his cheek was cloven in twain -
yet the graven trace of his beauty remains.

3. No wanton hand slit that cheek of his;
nay, it was a sign for mortal men.

4. God split it, that we might look therein
and see how the moon was rent in sunder.